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An encyclopedia of the canals and rivers of England and Wales, including historical data, provided by Jim Shead, Waterways Writer and Photographer.

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British Pathé Film Clips of Rivers and Canals A new feature giving access to newsreel film clips from the early twentieth century that can be searched by date or waterway to find the appropriate link to the Pathé website and a listing of Waterway Events of 2012 are now available. If you are organising a UK canal or river event that you would like added to this list please let me know.

Today's Featured Waterway Photo

Braunston Bottom Lock No 1 The Admiral Nelson and Lock No 3.
For more information see Grand Union Main Line.

The Boat Listing, which now includes Broads Authority boats, added in 2009, was last updated in April 2012. See also the new Most Popular Boat Names listing, based on the 89,000 boats in the Boat Listing.

If you are a newcomer to the subject, or this web site, you may want to start with my Introduction pages. These give an introduction to this website, the UK Waterways System, its history and to inland boating on canals or rivers.

Escape from Microsoft - my experiences with Linux.

Now it's easier to buy on-line when you

Books, videos, DVDs and links to other canal shopping sites.

For non-waterway travel photographs see www.jim-shead.net

I am also webmaster for the following waterways sites Railway & Canal Historical Society
IWA Peterborough Branch
The Association of Nene River Clubs
House of York

All about the Inland Waterways Association (IWA) click here

Quote of the day No 283

Friday 18 May 2012

From its earliest days members of the Inland Waterways Association realized that the biggest battle in saving canals from abandonment was against ignorance as to the existence of these waterways and indifference to their future. People in the towns or the country through which the canals ran neither knew there was a canal at all nor cared about its state or condition. Rallies of boats proved to be the ideal way to alter this state of affairs. For weeks before the rally cleaning up operations take place on the banks and the towing path. The British Waterways Board have usually tried to make the canal look its best and the town has co-operated. There have been notable exceptions, but in those cases volunteers have stepped in. Then the boats have come. There are few more attractive and exciting sights than hundreds of boats, all gaily painted and decorated with flags. The townspeople come to see, and for the first time in their lives they realize they have a real live waterway at hand with infinite possibilities, and that instead of being a dump for carpets and prams it could be something worth caring for and preserving.

David E Owen - Water Rallies

For more information about these daily quotations see About the Quote of the Day.

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